From: Andrew Wells (ajwells_at_att.net)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 18:02:00 EST
Zips may have gotten better recently, but the "click of death" resulted
in a class action lawsuit against Iomega... I know I have lost a lot of
data in computers and musical samplers to the click of death and have
not used Zips for awhile
-----Original Message-----
From: Juan Vizoso [mailto:vizoso_at_telcel.net.ve]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 2:54 PM
To: Thinkpad List
Subject: Re: Zip drives
I have a CD-r drive on my thinkpad, but it is not really cost effective,
since
the data is about 50MB on each machine, and since I can't fill it
partially over
a CD-r and then easily read that on all the machines, I think I'll try
to make
it easier with a zip drive or something similar.
BTW, what about the reliability of the disks? I know I wouldn't trust
backups to
floppys anymore, but are the Zip disks reliable?
thanks in advance, again
juan :J
----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Higgins" <higgins_at_dorsai.org>
> To: "Juan Vizoso" <vizoso_at_telcel.net.ve>
> Cc: "Thinkpad list" <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 6:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Zip drives
>
>
> > I would really consider a USB CDR or CDRW drive. In the longrun,
it's far
> > more useful. I would buy a USB 2.0 model which won't be any faster
than a
> > USB 1.1 on your current computer, but will be useful for years as
your
> > next round of PC will probably have the faster USB2 ports.
> >
> > That said, forget the parallel option. Go USB since you can hook it
up to
> > other machines readily.
> >
> > I would also note that hitechcafe.com seems to sell external
superdisks
> > for $60.
> >
> >
> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> > John M. Higgins
> > higgins_at_dorsai.org
> > v)212-337-7024/f)212-337-7028
> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > > hello, > > I want to buy a Zip drive, but I'm having
difficulties in
> > selecting one: > > The options, as far as I know are: > > Ultrabay
2000 >
> > > External USB > > External Parallel > > I will use it regularly on
the
> > thinkpad, but once a month I'd like to backup an > external computer
(I
> > don't have access to a real network, but I can easily > connect the
> > computers via Parallel Port (that's what I usually do for the >
> > backups)... > > The best solution i figure would be an external USB
model
> > and use it directly on > each computer to be backed-up (just 3
computers),
> > but one of the PCs for backup > doesn't have an USB port (is a work
> > machine for invoices and stuff and uses > w95 - so I'm not
installing USB
> > there). > > Is the Parallel port one too slow? Is there a way to use
a
> > converter to use a > USB one through a parallel port? > > What would
you
> > do in this case? > > BTW: I could easily use a Superdisk or
something
> > since I'm not really sharing > the data. > > thanks in advance > >
juan :J
> > >
> >
> >
>
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